The europalia curator's award is a unique prize in Belgium that offers financial and logistical resources to a (group of) curator(s) to develop an ambitious project with artists of their choice. The preparation of the project also includes a residency in the country of that year's europalia festival.

Europalia launched this unique prize in 2015, on its 45th anniversary. The curators chosen for the first edition, Alberto García del Castillo and Louise Osieka – on the occasion of the europalia festival dedicated to Turkey – developed their project with artists Laurie Charles and Marnie Slater. Following their residency in Istanbul, they presented their new creations during La Kermesse héroïque, a mini festival held at the Beursschouwburg and Midpoint café in Brussels from 13 to 15 January 2016. The event was accompanied by the publication Midpoint, published by Theophile’s Papers.

For the second edition of the europalia curator's award, Laura Herman and Charlotte Dumoncel d’Argence were chosen by a jury of emerging curators and cultural programmers active within Belgian cultural institutions. They developed their project with, among others, Martin Belou, Rachel Monosov and Adrien Vermont. Their exhibition Natural Capital was shown at BOZAR during EUROPALIA INDONESIA, from 21 December 2017 to 21 January 2018. The exhibition was accompanied by the online publication naturalcapital.online, including several contributions, essays and interviews with artists and researchers from Indonesia, Belgium and beyond.